Limited Evidence for Space
for Medicines from Earth
Astronaut health data is sparse. It comes from screened crews. Most of it covers the mission itself. Limits and sparseness of these studies show why travelers need one Unified Health Record before, during and after flight: To generate data and evidence for safety of all civilians in space.
These studies show what companies have published. Most were done on healthy astronauts. Few test the conditions most people have, like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression, diabetes, sleep apnea, obesity or arthritis. Few test how their medicines work in space: stability, how the body handles a drug (PK) and how the drug acts (PD). That is the gap Tellura Health is working to fill.
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